clean

Forms

1.Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
- Very fine, well-sorted, clean sand with no shells.
- Scientists believe they have identified the world’s cleanest air, free from particles caused by human activity, located over the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica.
2.Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.
- Insert a clean swab into your nose.
- I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
3.Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
- Our team won, but it wasn't clean.
- Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer.
4.Free of immorality or criminality.
- Create in me a clean heart, O God.
- I've been clean this time for eight months.
- Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.

1.A removal of dirt.
- Give the pan a thorough clean.
- This place needs a clean.
2.Of heavy metal, clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.
- Vocalist Kaan is impeccable in his performance engaging with the crowd and soulfully executing both searing screams and hauntingly melodic cleans.
3.The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

Common· #1574

Etymology tree

Proto-West Germanic *klainī

Old English clǣne

Middle English clene

English clean